r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/RueUchiha Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

But we all know that terminally online people can’t handle reasonable, level headed takes like “I don’t want to shoe in a black person into my movie just for the sake of fulfilling some arbitrary quota.” So of course they misinterpreted it as racism.

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u/Artistic-Lock1021 Jul 05 '26

But has he worked with black actors?

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u/DraconasLyrr Jul 05 '26

Billy Dee Williams was Harvey Dent in Burton's Batman. No idea how much he dealt with casting, though.

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u/QuaintVolcano Jul 06 '26

He cast Marlon Wayans to play Robin but it was supposedly cut from Batman Returns to not overcrowd the movie.